Protonym: Atta colombica
Authorship Guérin-Méneville, 1844a: 422
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality COLOMBIA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Colombia: (no further data). Primary type depository: MNHN.
Type notes 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Borgmeier, 1959b: 346, cites Colombia: Santa Marta as type-locality. 3) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 99, Guérin’s Hymenoptera material was split between MNHN, MSNG, and ZSBS, but some are also present in NNML.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Atta colombica Species Valid Original combination